MONTREAL — Montreal’s indie cinema scene is alive and well at Cinéma du Parc in the coming week, as two offbeat films by first-time directors take the screen for short runs.

Groove is in the heart — in the form of a razor-sharp 45-RPM record — in Renaud Gauthier’s slick and ridiculous Discopath, a riotous slasher flick about a killer who is set off by the pulsing beat of ’70s dance music.

The story starts in New York City (where else?) as burger-joint cook Duane Lewis (Jérémie Earp-Lavergne) goes off the deep end when he is invited to the trendy nightclub Seventh Heaven by a babe on roller skates (Katherine Cleland). An inventively splatterific death scene ensues.

Warning: If you don’t like the sight of fake blood and comically severed limbs, this film isn’t for you. But if you go for bursts of playful gore, it’s a blast.

Lewis escapes to Montreal as the NYPD searches for clues. He finds a job at a French Catholic all-girls school, where he is befriended by Sister Mireille Gervais (Ingrid Falaise) and math teacher Francine Léveillé (Sandrine Bisson), but he can’t keep his urges under wraps for long. Once he hears the call of the music, his dark impulses rise to the surface once again.

Discopath was shown at last year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, and it’s easy to see why. Despite some narrative lulls, it’s an amusingly sadistic tale driven by a great soundtrack.

While Gauthier goes for gore, Joseph Antaki just wants to have fun in My Guys. It’s the tongue-in-cheek tale of a self-professed “fag hag,” Georgette (Kendall Savage), who sees her royal status among her group of gay boyfriends threatened when new girl Janine (Catherine Castellucci) arrives on the scene.

Savage is a delight in the lead role, even doubling as Georgette’s twin sister, Georgina. Castellucci, whose real last name is Antaki and who is the director’s niece, is the link between these two films; in Discopath, she is a hot-to-trot schoolgirl who lands in trouble with her roommate (played by Sybille Gauthier, sister of the director).

Georgette gets up to all kinds of adventures with her boys, most of them revolving around how to get Janine out of the picture. The hammy tone takes cues from the John Waters school of filmmaking, where vraisemblance is secondary to nudge-wink chuckles.

One of the group’s favourite hangouts is the Gay Village’s Cabaret Mado, and this film will find its audience in anyone with even a passing interest in that part of town.

Both movies demand a certain amount of indulgence, but each yields rewards to the open-minded viewer.

Discopath screens in English and French with English subtitles Tuesday, June 10&nbsp;and Wednesday,&nbsp;June 11&nbsp;at 9 p.m. at Cinéma du Parc, 3575 Parc Ave. My Guys screens Thursday, June 12&nbsp;to Saturday, June 14 at 9 p.m., also at Cinéma du Parc.

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